Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for March 26, 2010
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In 1914, Austrian watchmaker Franz Pfannl designed a miniature semi-automatic pistol that fired bullets weighing only 1/5 of a gram! University of Florida researchers have created a way to rank shark attacks on a numerical scale by severity. On Feb. 15, 1921, Dr. Evan O'Neill Kane of Darby, Pa., USA, performed an appendectomy on himself with local anesthetic, to demonstrate the benefits over general anesthesia!